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TIL when Tommy Chong went to prison, his cellmate was Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street. Chong is the one who convinced him to write his memoirs

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J7PB TIL Cindarella is based on an old Greek fairy tale about a slave-girl who marries the pharaoh.
R7ymj TIL that lightning can't strike the same place twice is a myth. It can, and often does strike the same place repeatedly. The Empire State Building gets struck about 25 times per year
N7N78 TIL that after being told a jet powered car can run on anything that burns, the President of Mexico rode it running on tequila.
78GpO TIL About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY.
vP1j7 TIL the Hall & Oates song "I Can't Go For That" is not about a relationship between two lovers, but about the way the music industry treats artists. John Oates said that the song is really about "not being pushed around by big labels, managers, & agents".